The Khufu ship lays claim to a nautical record: the world's oldest ship found intact. It was buried alongside the Egyptian monarch Khufu, who lived around 2500 BC, intended as a "solar barge" to be used by Khufu in the afterlife.
A reconstruction:
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More: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khufu_ship
Previously:
4,000 year old Egyptian model tools - images
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